The centers will open first in 15 model homes in the cities of Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington DC, and Amazon will be looking to strike deals with other home builders to replicate the model.
Since 1986, when Ms. Smith, a former model and singer, opened her first restaurant in New York, she has occasionally been called the black Martha Stewart, but lately not much, as her visibility has spread and Ms. Stewart's has soured.
Massage Heights, a national membership-model massage franchise, opened its first Orange County location in Newport Beach on Aug 20.
Opened first Bath & Body Works 1990.
Dignity Village, a member-based community in Portland, Ore., had since 2001 lodged some 60 residents nightly; that experiment served as a model for Seattle, which opened its first tiny-house community for the homeless in January 2016, following a homelessness state of emergency in November 2015.
The British label Ghost, designed by Tanya Sarne and famously worn by models in the 1990's, opened its first New York shop, 4,000 square feet on Bond Street.
Earlier this year, Belgium opened its first counter-radicalization centre, modelled after the one in Montreal.
The first model institutions opened in New York and Pennsylvania around 1820, launching what Smith calls the "golden age" of the penitentiary.
Mr. Steinberg said interest in the East 93rd Street condos soared in May, when the first model unit opened for showings.
